Theme Of Love In Antigone

12/21/16 Understanding Of Love: In both plays, Antigone and The Symposium the theme of love is apparent, but not always through the same lens. Through the dynamism of characters Antigone and Socrates we can see the differences and similarities in the understandings of love and connect the two. In Antigone’s case, her character is very dynamic and has a very interesting role by showing very distinct personality traits and someone who holds strong to their convictions. Antigone proves to be very religious

Love in Antigone In Sophocles’ play Antigone, a girl named Antigone attempts to bury her brother Polyneices after her uncle, Creon, made a proclamation that no one is to bury him. Furious to discover that someone buried Polyneices, he sent sentries to guard the body. When they returned to Creon, they caught Antigone in the act. Consequently, Antigone is sentenced to remain in a cave until she dies from natural causes. Haimon, out of love, attempts to save Antigone, but finds her dead and kills himself

Love can be expressed in many different ways. In Antigone, familial love is central in Antigone’s life because she loves her brother Polyneices even though he was a traitor. In her speech to her sister about Creon forbidding Polyneices’ burial, Antigone makes it clear that familial love cannot be tainted. In the beginning of her speech, it is clear that Antigone still loves her brother because when she tells Ismene “the burial of our two brothers,”she is presenting both of her brothers as equals

In Antigone there are many examples of love and war throughout the play. The chorus plays a big role in explaining how love and war both take place. Love and war can not only be seen by the plot of the story, but can also be observed within many of the characters. Love is shown for the dead and other family members, war is shown by suicide, and people standing up for themselves and what they believe in. The are many examples of the characters showing the love that they have for one another, but the

Love and Bloodshed The ancient Greeks somehow linked together two aspects of life that seem to be exact opposites. Love and war, as Aphrodite was the mistress of ares, the god of war. In the play “Antigone” one of a trilogy, Antigone wishes for nothing more than to bury her deceased brother: However, that is the one thing her uncle, Creon, wants the least. There is a clearly defined relationship between love and war in Antigone, and it is a rather toxic relationship. In the play, the reader observes

Sophocles’s play, Antigone is the third of the three Theban tragic plays and was written around 440 B.C. and is still well known today. Sophocles 's play Antigone tells a tragic story about family honor and a sister’s love for her brothers. After Antigone’s two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles died in battle, Creon became the new leader of Thebes. Creon orders that Eteocles have a proper burial while Polynices’s body remain unburied, simply left to rot. Antigone refuses to let her brother’s body

Antigone is a very interesting play that was enjoyable to read. This play is somewhat long, but reads quickly as the characters in the play are interesting to learn about and understand. I liked how Antigone is a strong female heroine with a sense of righteousness and courage, especially when it was set and written in a time when male heroes were more common. The exposition of this play, that is spoken through the chorus right after Ismene and Antigone first dialogue at the beginning of the play

When in love, emotions become the driving factor in how people live their lives. Thoughts such as “what will they think of me if I say or do this?” are all but too common within the mind of someone in love. Due to this people go out of their way to avoid these any types of situation they would believe to upset a loved one. This type of understanding can be seen in the play Antigone by Sophocles. In ancient greece plays were similar to movies and TV shows. Perhaps without even knowing it, the general

internal or external. In the ancient Greek set play, Antigone, the author Sophocles challenges his characters to choose between family or authority. The author Sophocles illustrates the two concepts of family versus authority, while proving family ties to be more important through the main character Antigone, the heroine of the story, as a symbol for family. Creon, the antagonist, represents authority. Sophocles writes the play out to uphold a theme of an authoritative king who only wants to abide by

Antigone The author for this play is Sophocles. Antigone is the little girl of Oedipus and his mom, Jocasta. The two are dead, and her uncle, Creon, rules Thebes. There has quite recently been a war between Antigone's two siblings about who is to control Thebes. The two passed on, however Creon left the sibling who assaulted Thebes, Polyneices, unburied. Antigone conflicted with the law and covered him in any case. Creon at that point condemned her to death, in spite of supplications from his